According to hiphopdx.com, Joey Bada$$ is looking to play the late Big L in a biopic and the rapper’s label seems to be all for it. In a recent interview with REVOLT, Joey said, “A Hip Hop icon that I would love to play in a biopic would have to be Big L, I’ve heard many people in my career tell me how I favor him look-wise. Personally, he’s one of my favorite rappers to come out of the golden age — his story isn’t known well enough, so I would love to bring his story to light and worldwide.” TMZ later on reached out to Brian Shafton, a partner at RBC Records, which owns several of Big L’s masters, who said that Joey would be an excellent fit for the role. He also said that he believes a Biopic would be a great way to introduce Big L’s legacy to a new generation.
Big L was shot and killed on February 15th, 1999 in his hometown of Harlem, New York. The 24 year old made a name for himself while a part of the group Children of the Corn, as well as in the Diggin’ in the Crates Crew along with Fat Joe, Lord Finesse, Diamond D, and others. He only ever dropped one studio album in his life with Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous in 1995 and was close to signing with Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella Records before he was murdered.
Joey Bada$$, proved his worth in the TV and film space, taking home an Oscar in 2020 after his short film Two Distant Strangers won an award for Best Short Live Action. He also currently stars as Unique in 50 Cent’s Power Book III: Raising Kanan series. In a recent interview with HipHopDX, Joey spoke about starring in Power in saying, “I’ve always been around that stuff, but I never took that path because it was right there,” he explained. “I wanted to challenge myself to do other things, and then I had good older cousins and family that pushed me to not do that because they were doing it. It would’ve been easy for me to do it, but they wanted to see better for their little cousin and nephew. So it was easy to just kind of pull from those experiences that I’ve had or those observations that I made as a kid. Acting, in general, comes pretty instinctively to me, and I find it very similar to music, just in a way where you kind of go somewhere else. Like on that stage, I gotta go into superstar mode. I’m still here but it’s like a superstar hangover, but when I’m home, it’s a different vibe where I’m chill.”
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